As a collaboration between the USGS and the BOR Upper Colorado Region Water Resource Group, disparate lidar, bathymetry, and historic topographic survey sources were integrated into a common 3D database aligned both vertically and horizontally to a common reference system for water storage modeling. This project uses methods developed by the USGS CoNED Application Project. CoNED Project TBDEMs provide a required seamless elevation product for several science application studies such as shoreline delineation, coastal inundation mapping, sediment-transport, sea-level rise, storm surge models, tsunami impact assessment, and also to analyze the impact of various climate change scenarios on coastal regions. The raster topobathymetric elevation product, the Federal Geographic Data Committee (FGDC) metadata, and the spatially referenced metadata are contained in the downloadable bundle. Spatially referenced metadata are contained within an ESRI geodatabase that contains footprints for each of the input source areas. References: Danielson, J.J., Poppenga, S.K., Brock, J.C., Evans, G.A., Tyler, D.J., Gesch, D.B., Thatcher, C.A., and Barras, J.A., 2016, Topobathymetric elevation model development using a new methodology-Coastal National Elevation Database: Journal of Coastal Research, SI no. 76, p. 75-89, at http://dx.doi.org/10.2112/SI76-008. Thatcher, C.A., Brock, J.C., Danielson, J.J., Poppenga, S.K., Gesch, D.B., Palaseanu-Lovejoy, M.E., Barras, J.A., Evans, G.A., and Gibbs, A.E., 2016, Creating a Coastal National Elevation Database (CoNED) for science and conservation applications: Journal of Coastal Research, SI no. 76, p. 64-74, at http://dx.doi.org/10.2112/SI76-007. Andrews, B.D., Baldwin, W.E., Worley, C.R., Baskin, R.L., Denny, J.F., Foster, D.S., Irwin, B.J., Moore, E.M., and Nichols, A.R., 2018, High-resolution geophysical data collected in Lake Powell, Utah-Arizona, U.S. Geological Survey Field Activity 2017-049-FA: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/P90BU2VS. Parker, J., 2019, Lake Powell Light Detection and Ranging (lidar), Bureau of Reclamation Upper Colorado Water Resources Group, and The Atlantic Group LLC. Root, J.C., Hynek, S.A., DiViesti, D.N., Gushue, T.M., 2019, Digital Elevation Model of Glen Canyon Prior to the Flooding of Lake Powell from Historic Topographic Surveys, Utah and Arizona: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/P9368XHU.
